Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Ceann Comhairle)
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I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor - the sale of Booterstown Marsh, County Dublin, as advertised on the NAMA website; (2) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - the need to extend the period for spreading slurry; (3) Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy - the future use of the FÁS premises in Birr, County Offaly, in the event that FÁS staff are moved from the building; (4) Deputy Simon Harris - the need for stigma-reducing and mental health education in schools; (5) Deputy Thomas Pringle - the future of rural post offices in view of the closure by An Post of Laghey Post Office, County Donegal and the impact of the Postal Services Bill 2011; (6) Deputy Terence Flanagan - the need to put in place annual funding for the Northside Community Law Centre, Dublin; (7) Deputy Joe O'Reilly - the potential for the boarding out option to be used more widely as long-term care by the HSE; (8) Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - an gá atá le cead a fháil cuid de na haonaid tithíochta sóisialta ag Áras Rónáin, Cill Rónáin, Árann a athrú ó thithe sóisialta go aonad cúram príomhúil faoi chúram an HSE agus nach n-iarrfaí aon aisíoc ar an deontas a tugadh don ionad ó tharla go mbeidh sé in úsáid ag an HSE don phobal; (9) Deputy James Bannon - the need to designate Longford as a sub-office of the newly amalgamated Longford-Westmeath VEC; (10) Deputies Tom Hayes, Seamus Healy, Mattie McGrath - the proposed closure of Kickham Barracks, Clonmel, County Tipperary; (11) Deputy Niall Collins - the need to instruct the Bank of Ireland to reverse the 0.7% increase in their interest rate for credit facilities to business customers, which is due to take effect on 16 November 2011; (12) Deputy Gerald Nash - the delay in establishing a stroke unit in Drogheda, County Louth, under the national stroke programme of the HSE; (13) Deputy Patrick O'Donovan - the need to provide insulation in local authority houses and accessibility to local authority houses for people with a disability; (14) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to make available the necessary finance to tackle problems in the north fringe of Dublin and to facilitate the rehousing of residents of Priory Hall; (15) Deputy Regina Doherty - the introduction of a mechanism to connect single residences in rural areas to the mains sewerage systems; (16) Deputy Pat Deering - the need to have Carlow included on the motorway signs on the M7 prior to the split into the M8 and M9; (17) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - the decision not to proceed with the construction of the Dublin to Derry-County Donegal dual carriageway; (18) Deputy Brendan Smith - the need to consider alternative ways of funding the third level sector other than raising the €2,000 student contribution fee; (19) Deputy Robert Troy - the proposed closure of army barracks at Mullingar, Clonmel and Cavan; (20) Deputy Clare Daly - the cancellation of Metro north; (21) Deputy Michael McCarthy - the need to amend NAMA legislation in order to prevent payments being made to developers; (22) Deputy Gerry Adams - the need to support the 11 victims of the British Parachute Regiment who were shot and killed in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast in 1971; (23) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the proposals to remove grants for postgraduate students and increase undergraduate registration fees; and (24) Deputy Mick Wallace - the need to tackle the ongoing problem of persons waiting on trolleys in hospitals.

The matters raised by Deputies Mary Mitchell O'Connor, Niall Collins, Gerry Adams and Gerald Nash have been selected for discussion.